Opening Remarks: The First Intercontinental Ecuentro Against Neo-liberalism and for Humanity
Read by Subcomandante Marcos (Leader of the EZLN) Chiapas, Mexico 1966
This is who we are... The Zapatista National Liberation Army... The voice that arms itself to be heard... The face that hides itself to be seen... The name that hides itself to be named... The red star that calls out to humanity and the world... To be heard... To be seen... To be named... Tomorrow to be harvested in the past.. Behind our black masks... Behind our armed voice... Behind our unameable name... Behind us... Who you see... Behind us... We are you... Behind we are the same simple and ordinary men and women... We are repeated in all races... Painted in all colours... Speak in all languages... And live in all places... The same forgotten men and women... The same excluded... The same under-rated... The same persecuted... We are you... Behind us, you are us... Behind our mask is the face of all excluded women... Of all the forgotten indigenous... Of all the persecuted homosexuals... Of all the despised youth... Of all the immigrants... Of all those imprisoned for their words and votes... Of all the humiliated workers... Of all those dead from neglect... Of all the simple and ordinary men and women... Who don't count... Who aren't seen... We are... who are... nameless...